All Outputs (8)

Monks, Martyrs, and Masculinity: rethinking Christian authority in early Islamic Palestine (2024)
Journal Article
Parker, L. (in press). Monks, Martyrs, and Masculinity: rethinking Christian authority in early Islamic Palestine. Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies,

This article seeks to reassess monasticism within Abbasid Palestine, arguing that monasteries experienced decline and insecurity in the eighth and ninth centuries. It focuses on the Life of Stephen of Mar Sabas by Leontios of Damascus, arguing that L... Read More about Monks, Martyrs, and Masculinity: rethinking Christian authority in early Islamic Palestine.

Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History (2022)
Book
Parker, L. (2022). Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History. Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192865175.001.0001

Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch explores the authority of a holy man and its limitations in times of crisis, with a particular focus on the little-studied Antiochene stylite Symeon the Younger. Symeon the Younger (c.521–92) lived... Read More about Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History.

On the Margins of Empire: Confessionalization and the East Syrian Schism of 1552 (2022)
Book Chapter
Parker, L. (2022). On the Margins of Empire: Confessionalization and the East Syrian Schism of 1552. In T. Krstić, & D. Terzioğlu (Eds.), Entangled Confessionalizations? Dialogic Perspectives on the Politics of Piety and Community Building in the Ottoman Empire, 15th18th Centuries (429-450). Gorgias Press. https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463243586-017

Archiving Faith: Record-Keeping and Catholic Community Formation in Eighteenth-Century Mesopotamia (2022)
Journal Article
Parker, L., & Maxton, R. (2022). Archiving Faith: Record-Keeping and Catholic Community Formation in Eighteenth-Century Mesopotamia. Past and Present, 257(1), 89-133. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtab037

This article investigates the archiving practices of a little-known group of Catholics in the Ottoman Empire, the Diyarbakır Chaldeans, in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It argues for a flexible definition of archives, based not on tr... Read More about Archiving Faith: Record-Keeping and Catholic Community Formation in Eighteenth-Century Mesopotamia.

The Interconnected Histories of the Syriac Churches in the Sixteenth Century (2021)
Journal Article
Parker, L. (2021). The Interconnected Histories of the Syriac Churches in the Sixteenth Century. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 72(3), 509-532. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046920001505

Due to their different doctrinal positions, the various Syriac-using Churches of the Middle East have generally been understood as rivals to each other, with separate histories that can be studied in isolation. This article argues that doctrinal diff... Read More about The Interconnected Histories of the Syriac Churches in the Sixteenth Century.

Yawsep I of Amida (d.1707) and the invention of the Chaldeans (2020)
Book Chapter
Parker, L. (2020). Yawsep I of Amida (d.1707) and the invention of the Chaldeans. In B. Heyberger (Ed.), Les chrétiens de tradition syriaque à l’époque ottomane (121-152). Geuthner

The Ambiguities of Belief and Belonging: Catholicism and the Church of the East in the Sixteenth Century (2018)
Journal Article
Parker, L. (2018). The Ambiguities of Belief and Belonging: Catholicism and the Church of the East in the Sixteenth Century. The English Historical Review, 133(565), 1420-1445. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cey334

This article considers the emergence of the Chaldaean (East Syrian Catholic) Church in the 1550s, a topic of considerable relevance for scholars of eastern Christianity and of Counter-Reformation Catholicism alike. The Chaldaeans seem to present a pa... Read More about The Ambiguities of Belief and Belonging: Catholicism and the Church of the East in the Sixteenth Century.

Paradigmatic Piety: Liturgy in the Life of Martha, Mother of Symeon Stylites the Younger (2016)
Journal Article
Parker, L. (2016). Paradigmatic Piety: Liturgy in the Life of Martha, Mother of Symeon Stylites the Younger. Journal of Early Christian Studies, 24(1), 99-125. https://doi.org/10.1353/earl.2016.0009

The Life of Martha, the mother of the sixth-century stylite Symeon the Younger, has been almost completely neglected in modern scholarship. Yet the text possesses considerable historical interest as evidence for the contested development of a cult, a... Read More about Paradigmatic Piety: Liturgy in the Life of Martha, Mother of Symeon Stylites the Younger.